Un divertissement d’amour
2012 / HD / 13 min. / Loop
The content of this film is a kind of rearrangement of Plato's Symposion based on philosophic essays on love. It is also inspired by the Surrealists' Recherches sur la sexualité. In the sense of Roland Barthes' figures four persons are sitting at a table articulating thoughts on love. Whereas the setting is rather static, the camera takes the choreographic function. Referring to Sergej M. Eisenstein and his definition of mise en cadre, the film's dramaturgy is a play of incongruities of the image (the seen) and the sound (the heard). Michaela Schwentner